welcome to milwaukee, wisconsin. glad to have you here. thank you for joining us for the morning press conference. i'll give a brief welcome and then turn it over to the chair. he's our chair, joinedded today by governor mary fallon who is the vice chair from oklahoma, and will be the incoming chair on sunday, and two other fellow members of the executive committee, gary herbert, the governor from utah who hosted this annual event two years ago in salt lake city and park city, and governor from colorado who is looking good in a tie, i like that, but who actually had some good connections in wisconsin. he, in the previous life in the professional world opened up a few group hubs. we like that connection as well. we are bleezed to host the meeting of the national governor's association. we started two years ago with visit milwaukee, really being the imptous here locally. at the time, we talked with the tourism department to bid on this meeting, visited milwaukee, and they put together a team, mja milwaukee, for this event, and we had rave re